Bonnie Costello (born 1950)[1] is an American literary scholar, currently the William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor of English at Boston University.[2] Her books include works on the poets Marianne Moore,[3][4] Elizabeth Bishop,[5] and W. H. Auden,[6] and the relation of visual art to poetry through landscape painting[7] and still life.[8]

Books

Costello's books include:

  • Marianne Moore: Imaginary Possessions (Harvard University Press, 1981)[3]
  • Elizabeth Bishop: Questions of Mastery (Harvard University Press, 1991)[5]
  • Shifting Ground: Reinventing Landscape in Modern American Poetry (Harvard University Press, 2003)[7]
  • Planets on Tables: Poetry, Still Life and the Turning World (Cornell University Press, 2008)[8]
  • The Plural of Us: Poetry and Community in Auden and Others (Princeton University Press, 2017)[6]

With Celeste Goodridge and Cristanne Miller she edited The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore (Knopf, 1997)[4], which The New York Times listed as one of the notable books of 1997.[9]

Education and career

Costello is a 1972 graduate of Bennington College.[10] Her doctorate is from Cornell University, in 1977.[10][11] She joined the Boston University faculty in 1977,[10] and became Warren Distinguished Professor in 2017.[2]

Recognition

Costello was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2002.[12] She also became a Guggenheim Fellow in 1990,[13] and a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies in 2011.[14]

Her book The Plural of Us: Poetry and Community in Auden and Others won the Warren–Brooks Award for 2017.[11]

References

  1. ↑ Birth year from catalog entry in German National Library, accessed September 16, 2018
  2. 1 2 "Azer Bestavros, Bonnie Costello Latest Warren Distinguished Professors". Boston University. April 26, 2017. Retrieved April 26, 2017.
  3. 1 2 Reviews of Marianne Moore: Imaginary Possessions:
  4. 1 2 Reviews of The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore:
  5. 1 2 Reviews of Elizabeth Bishop: Questions of Mastery:
    • Millier, Brett (Spring 1992). Harvard Review. 1 (1): 141–142. JSTOR 27559418.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Dickie, Margaret (June 1992). American Literature. 64 (2): 406–407. doi:10.2307/2927871. JSTOR 2927871.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Becker, Robin (July 1992). "The poet behind the armadillo". The Women's Review of Books. 9 (10–11): 36–37. doi:10.2307/4021346. JSTOR 4021346.
    • Shaw, Robert B. (October 1992). "Elizabeth Bishop and the critics". Poetry. 161 (1): 34–45. JSTOR 20603356.
    • Loeffelholz, Mary (March 1993). The New England Quarterly. 66 (1): 159–164. doi:10.2307/366494. JSTOR 366494.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Gray, Richard (October 1993). The Modern Language Review. 88 (4): 966–967. doi:10.2307/3734459. JSTOR 3734459.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  6. 1 2 Review of The Plural of Us: Poetry and Community in Auden and Others:
  7. 1 2 Reviews of Shifting Ground: Reinventing Landscape in Modern American Poetry:
  8. 1 2 Reviews of Planets on Tables: Poetry, Still Life and the Turning World:
    • Beidler, Philip (January 2009). American Literature. 81 (1): 201–203. doi:10.1215/00029831-2008-059.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Archambeau, Robert (March 2009). "Review". Boston Review.
    • Socarides, Alexandra (Summer 2009). "Bringing History to the Table". Twentieth Century Literature. 55 (2): 255–261. doi:10.1215/0041462X-2009-3008. JSTOR 25733409.
    • Devine, Michael G. (Fall 2009). "Review". William Carlos Williams Review. 29 (2).
    • White, Rose (October 2009). The Modern Language Review. 104 (4): 1131–1132. doi:10.1353/mlr.2009.0148. JSTOR 25655072. S2CID 246646773.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Kearful, Frank J. (January 2010). "Review". Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas. 8 (1).
  9. ↑ "Notable Books of the Year 1997: Nonfiction". The New York Times. December 7, 1997.
  10. 1 2 3 "Curriculum vitae" (PDF). Boston University. October 2013. Retrieved September 17, 2018.
  11. 1 2 "Book by Bonnie Costello selected as winner of Warren-Brooks Award". WKU News. Western Kentucky University. January 10, 2018. Retrieved September 16, 2018.
  12. ↑ "New Members of the Academy" (PDF). Induction. American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Fall 2002. pp. 5–13. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2004-06-11. Retrieved 2018-09-17.
  13. ↑ "Bonnie Costello". Fellows. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved September 16, 2018.
  14. ↑ "Bonnie Costello F'11". American Council of Learned Societies. Retrieved September 16, 2018.
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